 | 1901 - 510 sayfa
...pass, indeed, from the ravings of the Zend-Avesta or the Puranas to the tones of sense and business in this Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from...exercise of an improved understanding; and redundant and absurdly minute as these laws are in many particulars, we scarcely know any European code that is at... | |
 | John Francis Davis - 1870 - 108 sayfa
...tremendous nonsequiturs, and eternal repetitions of those oracular performances. . . . . When we pass from the ravings of the Zendavesta or the Puranas to the tone of sense and business of this Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from darkness to light—from the drivellings... | |
 | Enoch Cobb Wines - 1879 - 758 sayfa
...and distinct series of enactments, savoring throughout of practical judgment and European good sense. When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta or the Puranas to the tone of sense and business of this Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from darkness to light, from the drivellings... | |
 | Samuel Wells Williams - 1882 - 896 sayfa
...general approaching to them more nearly than the codes of most other nations. When we pass, indeed, from the ravings of the Zendavesta or the Puranas to the tone of sense and business in this Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from darkness to light, from the drivellings... | |
 | Chester Holcombe - 1895 - 382 sayfa
...found in any other Asiatic country. Sir George Stanton, who translated the Chinese code, said of it : " When we turn from the ravings of the ZendAvesta or the Puranas to the tone of sense and business in this Chinese collection, it is like passing from darkness to light, from the dwellings... | |
 | Neville Edwards - 1900 - 138 sayfa
...Review on the .Tartar-Chinese penal code, remarked : " When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta to the tone of sense and of business of this Chinese...seem to be passing from darkness to light ; from the drivellings of dotage to the exercise of an improved understanding ; and redundant and minute as these... | |
 | James Dyer Ball - 1926 - 784 sayfa
...general approaching to them more nearly than the codes of most other nations. When we pass, indeed, from the ravings of the Zendavesta or the Puranas to the tone of sense and business in this Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from darkness to light, from the drivellings... | |
 | Albert Shaw - 1908 - 1018 sayfa
...found in any other Asiatic country." And the translator of the code, Sir George Stanton, declared : " When we turn from the ravings of the Zend-Avesta or the Puranas to the tone of sense and business in this Chinese collection, it Is like passing from darkness to light, from the dwellings... | |
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When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and of business of this Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from darkness to light — from the drivellings of dotage to the exercise of an improved understanding... 
